On 5/3/06, wikien-l-request(a)wikipedia.org
From: Ben McIlwain <cydeweys(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cyde should not have violated Deletion policy
(Johntex)
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
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I didn't "close" the debate so much as I "canceled" it. My
"vote", as
you mention, was to cancel it ... and then a minute after that I
realized I could go through with what I said should be done.
Unfortunately, this misses the point. Whether you called it a "closure" or
"cancellation" or a "stoppage" or whatever. You halted the process
that a
lot of people were contributing to. They had a right to be heard. This
wastes a lot of time and looks like bad behavior for an admin to kill an AfD
early, especially one he has been involved in.
Johntex